Israeli Music Icon Yoni Rechter and Friends: Spotlight on Israeli Culture
Schedule
Thu Sep 12 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture | Boston, MA
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Legendary Israeli composer and musician Yoni Rechter will make his Boston debut at The Vilna on Thursday, September 12.Rechter will be joined by Hebrew translator Eli Bijaoui and Israeli news anchor Romy Neumark—three Israeli cultural icons who are celebrated for their extraordinary contributions to Israeli society.
This special evening of music and conversation will illuminate how the arts have carried Israel and its people since October 7 and amid a year of war.
This program will weave together performances by Rechter with conversation and communal singing.
A light reception and time to mingle with the artists and your fellow arts lovers will follow.
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This is truly a community celebration. We are thrilled to be partnering with Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Jewish Arts Collaborative, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, and The Consulate General of Israel to New England.
About Yoni: Composer, pianist, singer and arranger, Yoni Rechter has made a major contribution to Israeli music in a career spanning more than 40 years, and is considered among Israel’s most important musicians. In the dozens of songs that Yoni composed, he created a wide variety of styles, incorporating numerous influences, from Sixties pop (mostly Beatles) to Jazz, Israeli to classical, east and west, into a fascinating personal statement. Rechter always composes with originality, great sensitivity to text, and for the best performers. He is considered the mark of quality and integrity in Israeli music.
About Romy: For over two decades, Romy Neumark has been a trusted anchor in the high-pressure world of Israeli live news, commanding the airwaves at the renowned Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN). She not only created and hosted the daily "Night News" and a weekly radio interview show, but also used her platform to champion social change through creative uses of Hebrew, promoting gender equality, diversity, and inclusivity. This dedication earned her the prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalism at Harvard University (2023). Now, Romy brings her expertise to the US as a Hebrew lecturer at Harvard University. Her unique perspective, shaped by years of navigating the nuances of Israeli news and fostering dialogue, allows her to connect audiences through a captivating blend of journalism and culture.
About Eli: Eli Bijaoui is Israel's most dominant, varied and esteemed theater translator in the last 20 years with nearly 100 classics, modern plays and musicals translated from both English and French into Hebrew for Israel's repertory theaters. Including Molière’s Tartuffe and Miser; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Othello; Kushner’s Angels in America, Icke’s 1984 and Oedipus, Sartre’s Huis Clos; Mamma Mia, Cabaret, West Side Story and Sondheim's Passion.
Eli is known for his artistic skills, working with different layers of the Hebrew language to create a rich and fluent dialogue. His constant awareness of social injustice; racism, discrimination, minorities rights influence not only the way he chooses projects, but especially the way he communicates their main themes in the elaborated Israeli reality.
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Where is it happening?
Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, 18 Phillips St, Boston, MA 02114-3711, United States,Boston, MassachusettsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
